30 November, 2008

So I discovered my phone’s text messaging dictionary includes valuable terms like “Y2K”.
I also, in the past week, learned how to condition a cast-iron pan. It involves getting a lot of butter on your hands.
It really bothers me when I read a list of three items in which the third item is clearly redundant and/or [...]

When all you have is a hammer… 25 November, 2008

every problem, naturally, looks like a nail. So it goes with what I’ve been cooking. I have like six ingredients, so it’s a question of seeing how much variation I can squeeze out of them. I like to pretend like I’m Mark Bittman, a comparison about as apt as likening myself to fellow 6′4″ GWHS [...]

on the reporting of science 24 November, 2008

I just read one of the NY Times online blog posts about health, and it just kind of the last straw for me. The content of the post is basically advancing the argument that vitamin supplements don’t really do anything for most americans, whose diets are not micro-nutrient deficient except in limited circumstances (calcium for [...]

traffic sounds 23 November, 2008

The place I’m staying is next to a traffic-pattern-significant street. I don’t mind the sound of cars at night; it’s city background noise the same way birds and crickets and wind in the trees is outdoors background noise. And when I’m talking about falling asleep to them, I’m setting aside other aspects by which they [...]

note to self: 17 November, 2008

DO NOT buy non-thick-cut bacon ever again. It’s like half as much product. And it tends to leave more burnies sticking to the pan.

daily life things 13 November, 2008

After making several failed-omelettes that became scrambles, I decided I’d just make straight-up scrambled eggs. And, of course, they ended up cooking into a perfect thin sheet across the whole bottom of the pan. Maybe I’ve been using too much filling for my eggs? Maybe it’s just one of those things that the universe will [...]